Last but not Least

Hello all, this might be the last entry for this blog. Going to take a long break from blog writing now. Took me a long time to come to this decision. Why I am saying this is because I have more or less share a lot of useful tips about achieving ones dream, being passionate, being motivate and how to be motivated, how to handle some problems, what to look out for in the future, so on and so forth. I am glad that these tips are out in the open, helping people who have come across this blog. It has come to a point where I doubt I can value add to other people's live.

And this blog has come to a point where I cannot put in some innermost thoughts for the same reason, people cannot tell the whole truth to people. My thoughts have been hampered. Maybe I should just keep my blog a 'secret' and all these entries would not be associated with me. I feel restrained writing this blog anyway, so it does not value add much to me, at least at the moment now. And this blog has brought many inconvenience to the people around me. So I think, standing from a friend's point of view, I do not want to 'burden' them anymore.

Moving to a busy period now, where I simply cannot afford too much time in thinking and writing this blog as well. Because like I mentioned before, I used to be able to write, well almost, unrestrained but I did take care not to hurt anyone. After the incident, it has come to a point, my flow of thoughts have been hampered by the question, "Will it hurt?", "Is it obvious?", "Should it be here?" "Should this be deleted?" and many more. Again, maybe I should be blamed for 'publicising' my blog.

Took up blog writing more than a year already. It has been a nice learning experience. I learn about the power of blogging. One can improve one's language if he takes great care in presenting his blog in good English. Because of this reason, two of my friends took up blogging as well and I must say their English has improved a lot. I am glad this blog has such a positive influence on them. I will not be removing this blog because like I mentioned those that are inside are useful tips for people and it would be nice to reminisce later when I have more free time and feel the joy, sorrow, hurt and fun I had during this period of blogging. :) With search engine on blogs now, blog entries are more exposed and effect of each entry are more pronounced. Very scary indeed. I mean someone from Egypt, maybe reading your blog and thinking "What the hell this blogger is talking about? He should have...." Haha! All in all, I like this period of blogging. It has been a fun learning experience and I would relive it again although I would wish some entries have not been published (I am still 'smarting' from it. Sigh!)

I do think I have achieve my aim of blogging, in the way I have put down interesting stuff and spread tips on improving people's lives, both mental, financial and physical health. Blogging has improve my language slightly. I have left a part of me, in tim, using this blog and it has help me improve my skill of organizing my thought as well. Like a double-edged sword, its effect has brought me hurt as well.

Guys, bear with me, since this may be my last blog, so I am going to write a long one. Yesterday, a close primary school friend of mine called me. Nice to know that people still remembers you when everyone in Singapore are so busy with work. Well, he was asking me for advice. He was saying he felt miserable because he has a colleague whom he is a loggerheads with. And he would avoid that guy in the office whenever possible, as in if he is walking towards him, he would walk away. He would rather make a long detour than to share the same corridor with him and so on.

I told him it is ridiculous. Well, I do feel it is ridiculous. Why should you need to inconvience yourself so that you can don't see the person in close proximity? It is like two sides fighting a battle and without fighting, one side is always avoiding the other side. I told him if I am his colleague, on hearing this I would laugh. Because without doing anything and at no expense, I am able to inconvience you, make you wait longer, do a long detour, cannot eat at your favourtie places, with just my presence only. Wow! So easy. See my point? What I am saying is, you are torturing yourself only without the person that you do not like lifting a finger.

I also do not like the 'passionate' man in my office. But I will not take a long detour just to avoid him. Just walk towards him, taking him as transparent. Yesterday, he was going to take the same bus as me and my friends. No way, I am going to wait for the next bus, just because he is going on that bus. I am not going to go home late without any expenses from him. Too good for him.

There was this guy who is a good friend of my best friend in university. I have no idea why that guy do not like me, but his actions are damn funny and ridiculous. Two incidents. First incident, my best friend, me and another friend were having lunch. This guy came along and the only seat available at the table was the seat across mine. Haha! Througout the whole lunch, that guy never look straight at all, his head is always looking at the sideways. I think his 'strange' behavior could have caused some neck strained there, without me doing anything at all, just my presence. :P

Second incident was during a lecture. That guy and my best friend was sitting together in the lecture hall. I came in late because I have to rush from the Arts Faculty to Science faculty. The only seat that is near my best friend and available was the one beside the guy. So I make my way there and sit down. Know what happen? Haha! That guy place his full butt in half the seat which is very small, thus he has to use his legs to help support him while sitting down. In the end, I think he got cramps or something because he cannot stand up properly. Again, I did nothing, just my presence beside him.

So what I am saying to this friend and all those friends out there who are reading this. Is there really a need to inconvenience yourself? Don't you find it ridiculous? Just do what you need to do. Causing yourself unnecessary comfort is really...

Just a secret to share, the later stage of this blog was written for one person in mind. Who it is? Well this will be the secret in the secret! Ok, with this I close the blog with this entry for this year. I might or might not come back to this blog. We will see if circumstance permit or not. Thank you very much to all readers who have shown support. The Singaporean, studying in Australia, who responded to my first few blog entries, are you still reading this? If you are, do leave a comment, just to catch up and keep in contact.

Cheers!

Some things interesting

Haha. Can afford a bit of time to write blog for a while today. Life has been one of excitement and motivation the last few days. I practiced a technique found in most self-help books and was able to feel motivated to finish doing the translation for my website and I just finish the chapter within 2 days! The only problem is my physical body cannot keep up with the place. So need to make some adjustment to it. Now you may ask how come now then I try the technique. Well because these authors never give me the full picture. Haha, I have to figure it out bit by bit, but hei, when I need to know, I will know. :D If u are going to ask me the technique, hehe, it is a little secret of mine which I hope you will respect my decision to keep it as it is. :)

Well, was reading an article in the newspaper about health and found out that two third of cancers are a result of lifestyle we lead. Amazing fact. It means if we are to make some adjustment of our lifestyle, we are able to reduce the risk of two third of cancers. So are you prone to cancer? Well better start reading up! I think our physical health is like other areas of our life, for example financial health, and network health. We need to read up and think for ourselves what is good and bad. But after reading it is not enough, you have to take actions based on this knowledge in order to benefit from it.

To all the friends who are reading this blog, I have a nice quote to share with you'll from Analects of Confucius which I am doing translation.

子贡问友。子曰：“忠告而善道之，不可则止，毋自辱焉。”

Zi Gong asked what is friendship. Confucius said:"To advice when he makes a mistake, guide him properly. If to no avail, then halt, or you will disgrace yourself and worse, lose the friendship."

So be happy that your friends are pointing out your mistakes, because the more people they are pointing out for you, your mistakes, it means you have genuine friends. I personally think this is a good gauge to know how deep your friendship is with certain friends. So friends out there, if I made a mistake, took a wrong path, do point it out to me. Well, I cannot say for sure, I would not be angry, but I will definitely think through whether these advice are valid or not and make adjustment if needed.

Well time to head back to my translations. For those of you who have been to my website, thank you very much for the support, and for those who have not, please have a look and let me have your feedback, if any.

Cheers!

Goodwill vs Money

Whew, almost a week since I last posted my blog, apologies for any inconvenience I have caused. Thank you very much for those who come to my blog regularly to read what is happening to me. :P

Have been pretty busy. Starting a business soon so have to get ready all the paperworks and processes done up fast. Website that I have are starting to receive attention now, and I just discovered there are a lot of ways, one can use the current internet to broadcast their expertise and knowledge. All thanks to my friends. It certainly exciting to know there are a lot of platforms now I can use to showcase to people my expertise and knowledge. The only thing needed from me now is to commit to action. Taking actions to take advantage of these platforms that I come to know of. I really must work very hard now to gain a strong financial foundation before I move on to other things.

For those who are from NUS, just to inform you, 4 out of 10 bursaries given out by NUS is to a foreigner. So, alumni of NUS, still want to donate? You have a choice. Make it. I have made mine. Just a note, I have nothing against foreigners. In fact, I have many good friends that are from other countries. The benefit of globalisation. Haha!

Yesterday, I went to attend one of good friend's health talk. Very informative. If any of you are interested in attending the next one, let me know, I will inform you.
Anyway, the talk was arranged by my friend's business partner, let's call it Mr A and held in another business partner of Mr A's restaurant, let's call him Mr B. So me and my friends went to the restaurant to have dinner there then. Now Mr B and his restaurant partners heard the talk and found it informative. But I was quite surprised that they did not offer discount on my good friend's bill. Well, if I am the restaurant owner, I would have given a bit of discount, maybe just to recover the costs since I benefited a lot from the talk.(They asked a lot of questions, so that i how I gauge that have benefited from it.) But apparently, they did not.

Of cos it is ok that they did not give discount, but I think because of a few dollars, there were a lot of goodwill lost. I, for one don't think I would recommend the place to other people. The food is good, but not fantastic enough to recommend people. I initially wanted to hold my company's public meeting there since it is a cosy place, but after this episode, I doubt I will even entertain that thought. I also told my friend that such thing should only do once. The next time if it needs to be done, have to talk it out like a business partnership. No such thing as keep on giving without taking. I do not believe in that.

I think a person should give when he knows he has taken a lot from a person. Such a person would definitely be welcome in many places because people know such a person is not out to take advantage of people. And knowing how to give would create a lot of goodwill, at a small costs, which are immeasurable by money. No need to grab money too tight. Money can be earned back, but once goodwill is lost, that is it. Very difficult to earn it back. Moreover if you grab money too tight, it will come to a point where you are working for money, because it has control over you, instead of you making money work for you.

Time and goodwill are very important once they are lost, it is very difficult to recover it or almost impossible. Do not place money above them, because when you do, you become enslave by money which is not healthy.

Cheers!

Observe and you shall learn

Just for the records. I have to wait 15 mins for my bus today, and I was almost late for the training! Bloody transport system owner!!! You are increasing the bus fare every year since three years ago, the least you can do is increase the bloody bus frequency lah! And how did that Public Transport Council do their survey! Idiots, and if you tell me those that structured the survey are university grads, I really fear for Singapore future!

Anyway, the bus is crowded as usual today, but this time I decide to ignore what I was listening on my MP3 player, hold my reading and observe the other commuters inside the bus. Well nice discovery. Three most common activity on a bus, sleep, listen to something and chatting on the phone! Haha! Sleep, I can understand. In Singapore, a lot of the people are sleep deprived. They work extremely hard for their boss and in the end their health suffer. The Ministry of Health should conduct exhibition to inform Singaporeans how to have better sleeping habits. This can improve our workforce and study-force productivity. Why aren't anyone doing it? In end, sleep in the bus but the rest benefits you derived is mediocre because who can get quality sleep in a bus that has all kinds of smell and sound?

Listening on the MP3 player, well what can I say, what if you are listening to some self development audio clips? That would really make full use of your time. But most of the people would rather listen to some music or radio station. I guess on the bus it is the only time they can get some break away from the their work routine, but they are not breaking away from their day routine. Wonder such a break is good or not. :P Well I am guilty of it, but in the bus I read books or newspaper, so time is not wasted for me. I am still improve myself during the bus journey.

Chatting on the phone. No comments. People need to feel connected and hand phone has help most people in this aspect. I also would like to chat on the phone but, very expensive for me, because mine is using a prepaid card, and I do not have anyone special to talk to anyway. Haha! :P

Anyone interested about the fourth most common activity in the bus? Well, reading lah! I saw a lot of people reading in the bus as well. What they read? Well novels and what else, newspaper lah. Why novels ah? Well in the bus, it is the only time they can read the novel and escape into a different world before they fall flat in reality and back to routine work. For me, I read books and newspapers. Books on business and self development. :)

For any entrepreneur, I strongly suggest you take a bus during peak hours. Not that I am crazy, but inside a bus you can see the consumer trends very well and some pretty and well dressed office girls of course. Haha! Want to know what is the latest hot novels? Just look at the people who are reading, what they are reading. Latest popular handphone model? Look at those people who are chatting on the phone. And looking at the hand phone one used, it can tell you something about the person. Serious. If you put some thought and deduction into it, you can tell a person from, maybe not handphone alone, but at the activity he/she is doing in the bus, the character of that person. Want to know what is the latest office fashion wear?
Well, look at the ladies! ;) Haha!

So actually a crowded bus is a treasure trove of information waiting to be discovered. Open you eyes, use a bit of brain and you will find a lot of nuggets of useful information inside. So try it next time you are on a crowded bus or MRT. Stop what you usually do and observe. You never know what interesting thing you will find out.

Cheers!

What a year it has been!

Well, 2006 is coming to an end in less than 50 days. Now would be a good time to push myself to finish some stuff by the end of the year. Like some of the training materials that I want to go through, the websites that I wanted to finish and yes launching a business soon. Finally a dream come true for me, thanks to a couple of good friends. Thank you very much for letting me be part of this great team.

Looking back at this year, I have launched two websites, one is on track to generate good stream of passive income while the other is to pursue and showcase my interest. I have gained myself a platform to conduct and learn how to do proper training which would be of great experience to talk about or useful in life later on. And the best part is the amount of help this software company has rendered to me. I am truly grateful to them. Formed a team of business partners that I am sure we can take our business to many places.

I have gained a lot of friends and contacts, thanks to two of my great friends that I have met at work. Gained a lot of knowledge in business especially business intelligence due to training and ancient Chinese wisdom and history because of my relentless pursuit in them.

This year, I move on to another riskier investment tool with mixed success but I am happy with the result given that I am only a greenhorn in it and still have a lot to learn from. At work, I have got rid of the 'passionate' man since he has been a nuisance from day 1 of 2006, because I took a proactive approach and he has a lousy reputation at workplace, thus things are going great at the workplace, to the envy of many friends.

Well, many people would say there is one area that did not see improvement but I beg to differ, because things are much straightforward now compared to the first half of the year where it is 'hazier' than the haze in Singapore. So I would deem that I have gained some ground.

Looking back 2006 is a great year for me. More than 28 years of my life has passed and I must say this year is definitely one of the best year I have. A pity I do not have someone special to share with but hei, I have great friends to journey this year with me! Best! Haha!

I better spend the last week of 2006 to plan how I can make 2007 another exciting year, hopefully one that would exceed that of 2006 by a large amount! Meanwhile, back to my website!

Cheers!

Resolute Belief

Ever had this feeling that something is not the end? When it seems like it is? Or you believe in something so strongly, you know it is going to happen although given the current circumstances, it cannot happen at all.

I came to this center that I work in more than 2 years ago. That time I am only a one man person, meaning I want to be an entrepreneur but have not formed a core team, still seeking the team I needed to be successful in business. And seeking a girlfriend, that was one of my wish as well. Haha! Because the former workplace that I came from, no girls are working there. Maybe that is one of the reason, my intention and flesh was united in leaving the former company. Haha!

Now things are very good now. Have assembled a good team through contacts from the center. This team can be used to form the core of many business, because we have strong technology, law and business knowledge. We are going to launch a business soon. And now I have my own website that I can showcase to people my passion on Chinese Culture, Language and History. And best part is, I can use my research expertise to combine this into business. Given the current trend, I strongly believe this is going to help me move from depending on a job to financial indepence.

So yes, things are, like I mentioned a lot of times, very smoothly. The center has given me the flexibility of working hours so I can go ahead with my training with another software company. And with some good luck, I was able to get rid of my biggest nemesis in the center. He can now, no longer do any damage to me. And the best part is my supervisor is a patient lady that is very good in statistics. So I foresee, I am going to pick up more things from her, or at least a platform for me to learn more about statistics which I can see how it can be used in improving business intelligence. So things are moving very smoothly. Most people heard about my situation was saying I am very lucky. Indeed I am.

Everytime I think of giving up the job at the center, things took a great turn and it turned out great for me. So was wondering, could it someone is telling me that I have some 'unfinished' business there. As for what 'unfinished' business, I have only a slight idea. I can leave this job anytime, but things are so good here, I could not bear to leave it. I mean it would be a stupid act to leave with things going so well there. This lead to the fact that now I am willing to do some big betting now on a particular lady. As mentioned, I strongly believe she is capable of greater stuff and I believe I have the capability to create the platform for her to perform,(but definitely will depend on whether she wants it or not and I will respect her decision).

But as most of you know, the current situation is bleak. The only thing I have is the strong belief that I can finish the 'unfinished' business here in the center before I say sayonara to it. Now is to hold on to this belief and be resolute in it and continue to be in the center to finish the 'unfinished' business. Meanwhile, continue working on my business and investment, earn more money to give my family and also family-to-be a comfortable life!

Cheers!

Thought are found here and there as well.

Yes guys, I am still awake although at this time I should be sleeping. Well just came back from an Indonesian couple's place. We have pizza and drinks for dinner. :P Yes, very unhealthy, but hei, once in a while we need to let our hair down, so once in a while we have to let our stomach have something that we like, right? We played some card games and it was fun with one or two 'jokers' inside, including me. Haha! So the sleep bug has not bit me yet, so I decide to write something here.

Well, there is a saying that for a parent to determine whether a future son-in-law is good or not is to have a game of mahjong with him. One that 'plays' with money. Because only by playing with money and because of the nature of mahjong, you can see the true character of the future son-in-law. So guys out there better watch out when your girlfriend's parent ask you to play mahjong. That could be the ultimate test that would determine whether you can win the hand of your girlfriend later on.

Anyway, mahjong is a game that test the memory, thinking, risk taking level and attitude towards money, of a person. And when one loses money, one's emotional intelligence can be seen immediately without too much deduction at all.

But one should note that emotional intelligence is not something you can achieve high level immediately. You need to develop and train your mental strength, just like you train your physical muscle. So guys, if you really love the girlfriend that you have, start training your mental strength, because you never know when you will need to play mahjong. Haha! So mahjong anyone? I have not played for a long time, but no money hor. I very stingy with money. Haha! :P

Oh, another thing, the wife prepared chee cheong fun for us but put different sauce inside. Still nice lah, but the combination is strange. And not that I do not like the taste, as a matter of record, it is more like not tasty until I need to have more. Haha. But coming back, if my wife did start to cook new dish or bake new pastry, I definitely will support her by trying out the dish, but I will give constructive points. So that she can improve. That should be the case between couple, showing support for things that are good and I consider picking a new skill as something that should be supported. But that is still a long way. The future is too unpredictable. Haha.

Oh another thing, I just found out that each of us can be related to a unfamiliar person by a chain of 6 people. For example, I can be related to the Li Ka Shing by having 6 people in the middle. But the relationship chain from these six people to Li Ka Shing could be very broad, like being colleague of, cousin of and so on. So maybe it is possible, but how they arrive the figure six, is something I am curious to know. Anyone can tell me? Need to find out the six people so that I can befriend my favourite singer. :P

Ok the sleep bug is here. Time to sleep. Tomorrow is going to be another day where I aim to improve by at least 1% by learning new things! Good nite everyone and especially you. You know who I am refering to. :D

Cheers!

Hidden Talents

Haha, after the last blog entry, one friend asked me what is my ideal wedding. Have not find a girlfriend, can talk about ideal wedding already ah? Haha! Anyway, this is how i answer my friend, "This woman is the person I am willing to spend the rest of my life with her, so her ideal wedding would be my ideal wedding as well." Although a wedding that does not cost me any money is the best, but that is totally impossible because I am not a celebrity, unless...... she is one lah Then I can get a lot of sponsorship does no need to spend money. :D Haha! Dreaming again. :P

Anyway, I went to a short photo taking trip on the week long break that I took. I have uploaded it to this website www.lifestylewiki.com The photos are at Thian Hock Keng, Kuan Im Temple and Lee Kong Chian Reference Library Have a look and feel free to give me your comments. Anyway, some of my friends are commenting that the pics I took are nice, the angles and colors. Well, what can I say, I have many talents that I myself need time to discover. Haha! I like photography. especially structure that has a certain special geometric meaning in them. I also like taking pics in many different angles, to a point I almost fell off once trying to get a good angle. :P Yes, a skill and talent maybe that I wish I can develop later on when I have more time.

Oh, and most of the food articles written in www.lifestylewiki.com, was done by me. Quite scary, I did not realise I have a flair for writing about food until that time, but of course I am still far away from a professional food critic, but hei I am a foodie as well. And definitely like to share any nice food with people. Maybe, nxt time I am free again, I will be able to become a free lance food critic, then I can have free and nice food to taste. :)

If you notice here, actually I strongly believe that each individual has more than one thing they have talent and good at. Just that because of the world we live in, time become such a scarce commodity, we are not able to discover our other hidden talents. Another thing to note is the platform to discover as well. If it were not for the chance to write in the website, I might not have discover the 'talent' of writing food articles and also phototaking. I wonder what other hidden talents do I have that I did not discover? Comedian? Actor? Road Sweeper? Opps, how did that get in? Haha!

The point here is that I think, when we are young, we really should try to find platforms for us to discover as many of our hidden talents as possible. The key sentence is "Never give up trying." Once the platform is available, jump onto it and try! If not, as we grow older, we are so caught up with the only one talent that we developed, we might not be able to 'groom' our talents which could be critical for our survival then. Well things are unpredictable, doing this would provide more choices later on, if a decision is needed to be made later. So go out and try to discover more hidden talents. "Never give up trying."

Cheers!

What is your ideal funeral?

Haha! Strange thing to talk about though but this was, if I remember correctly mentioned in Stephen Covey's Seven Habits. Because what we are doing now will really affect how your funeral is conducted. Imagine if a man did a lot of bad things, his funeral would be attended at the most his best friends, if there is any, and some colleagues or acquaintance who are 'forced' to attend.

If a man who has helped many people, I am sure his funeral would be attended by a lot of people who genuinely come to mourn for his death, it would be a noisy and crowded affair, people are willing to make speeches about the good he has done, people cry genuinely to see a great man has left this cruel world.

So what is your ideal funeral? Well for mine, of cos I wanted to have the latter that I talked about. Ideal funeral is that the head of many charity organizations will have speeches to talk about how I have helped the many organization, a few beneficiaries talk about how I have improve their lives. My first child making a speech about how great a mentor and father I am. My wife making a speech about how great a husband and a family caretaker I am. My eldest grandchild say how great a teacher I am. My eldest great-grandchildren said how great a playmate (no no, I do not want to be naked :P)I am. Aiyah, ideal funeral, imagination knows no boundaries mah. Haha! But come to think of it, I wonder will anyone doze off ah, so many people making speech. Hahaha!

Well, must fight on and achieve my ideal funeral. Haha! Great Wealth and Great Health, here I come. Anyone who wants to attend my funeral better start practising not to fall asleep during the many long speeches. :P And I take this opportunity to apologize to my future wife, if I did leave this world earlier than you, I am sorry for not taking care of you for the rest of your life. And another apology for making you appear in my idea funeral.

So what is your ideal funeral? Touch wood first before you start thinking :P

Cheers!

Of what value did you give it to?

Something nice happen today, and nope not going to share it with the readers. All I can say is that, it brighten my day. But was 'looking' through it and find something very interesting.

I am sure most of you would experience something like, in the middle of the day, something happened and you will be sad or happy for the rest of the day, depending on what happen or is it? :D

Now how do we determine whether something that happened is good or bad? By the emotions we attached to it? For example, you are given a raise by your boss, you attach the emotion of happiness to it. If you are retrenched, you attached the emotion of depress and/or anger to it. If that is the case how does one happy incident defer to another if emotions is the only thing that we attached to these happening? Think about it. If happy is just happy, there would not be words like "elated", "overjoy" and many other english words that describe happy which you will only see it in your GRE or SAT test. :P

Look deeper into it, it is actually the value that you attach to the happenings! If something that you give a high positive value, you will feel elated if it happens. If it is something that you give a small positive value, you will feel, well, just happy . If something bad happened, then you would give it a negative value and the intensity of the negative emotions would depend on the level of the value. This may explain two facts. One is similar happenings can have different meaning to different people. Secondly, if something good and bad happen at the same time, some people can be happy about it while others can be sad about it for example, your boss give you a raise and increase your job responsibility.

Now comes the best part. Since this value is given by you, that means you CAN control the intensity of your emotions. You can switch off the negative emotions by giving a 'zero' value to the happening, being indifferent. You can increase the intensity of positive emotions by attaching a higher value to it. How can you control the value you attached? Well, by looking at each happening from different angle might help.

Attaching to many negative value to too many happenings will not add too much or even destroy value to your life, and realising that you can control the value of each happening, why do yourself a disfavour of destroying value in your life? Add more value to your life by either accruing zero value to negative happenings and increase value APPROPRIATELY to positive happenings. Like that life will get better to some extent. Think about it.

Cheers!

Can a go-getter be content at the same time?

Well, will be staying at the center for another week or so before I go for a small respite, training for three days. Well at least I can …. :P Got a question in mind. As the title say, can a go-getter be content at the same time?

Looking at the lifestyle and career I am living now. I am contented with my life now at the moment, at least in terms of work and business. Website is doing fine, with regular traffic streaming in now, training is coming in regularly now and everything is fine at the workplace now ever since I got rid of “passionate” man. And now because of a better understanding of how this universe works, I feel very motivated to get things done and the belief that I will achieve something great is stronger than ever. So yes I am contented at the things are running at the moment. Love life like everybody knows is still a blank, much as I want to make changes to it but this is not something I can control, so I CHOOSE to be contented with it as well at the moment, and things might change for the better a few months from now

But I am not contented with what I am having now at the moment. Because like I said, I believe I can achieve more from this life. And I am sure if things continue the way things are now, and if I do proper planning, strategizing, have an open mind and absorb knowledge and facts like a sponge, I should be able to achieve my desired dream of earning enough money to tour the world with my family and add value to as many people’s live as possible.

So yes, I am contented and not contented at this moment of time. Haha! Sound contradictory but it is happening now. But it is possible. A lot of time, I see some youngsters, being very contented with everything, what they have, the life they are leading and the job that they have at the moment. The universe works in a strange way though (my opinion of course), once u are contented with everything you have in your life, it starts playing a joke on you by making major changes to your life, just to ‘spur’ you to ‘improve’ your life more. The reason is because one must realize that these people although are contented easily, have to realize the fact that their comfort zone are very small. So any changes can easily ‘kick’ them out of their comfort zone. Just imagine you are standing in a circle drawn on the ground with a radius of 1 metre. So just a small push would be able to push you out of your circle, but if you keep on expanding the circle you are in by moving along the circumference but staying slightly within the old circle and draw a slightly larger circle, sooner or later you will realize that the circle you are in has expanded. Now it would be more difficult to push you out of the circle because it is larger than ever and best thing is you can stay within the circle and avoid being pushed that easily as well.

What the analogy says is that keep on pushing your boundaries, thus you will expand your comfort zone. Grow more income sources and it will give you more freedom and more choices when the ‘push’ comes into your life.

Anyway, so I think I have got an answer now. A go-getter can be content at the same time, but he CANNOT be content with the existing comfort zone that he is in.

Cheers!